THE AMERICAN COMMA BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilla C. Aureum. 



Papilio C. Aureum, Shaw's Nat. Mis. pi. 1046 Smith's 



and Abbot's Insects of America, pi. 11. 



THE superior wings,, and upper half of the lower 

 ones, are of a bright orange red, spotted with 

 variously-shaped marks of black ; the lower ones 

 with a large circular black comma-like spot in the 

 middle of the orange ; the upper wings are deeply 

 indented and scalloped on their edges, and have a 

 broad margin of black, within which is a border of 

 small white dots ; the under half of the lower wings 

 are black, with longitudinal clouds of dark steel 

 gray, approaching to blue in some species; they 

 are also deeply indented and scalloped on their 

 edges, with short subcaudate wings ; the body is 

 olive green, and the eyes orange. 



The Papilio C. Aureum inhabits Virginia and 

 Georgia, where its caterpillar feeds on the leaves of 

 the white lime-tree j it changes to a chrysalis in 

 the month of May, and emerges the complete in- 

 sect in June. 



